HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.—Morgan Moss, a lifetime Highland Park resident, couldn’t sleep the night of July 4. On the morning of July 5, he went back downtown and quietly walked around the crime scene.
He was in the parade driving a company bus when a gunman randomly shot at the crowd from a rooftop. After opening the bus door to let a dozen parade-goers in, he took a side road and drove them to a safe location.
Later a coworker showed him footage of a victim killed at the parade and that image stayed with him. The massacre claimed seven lives and wounded dozens more….